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...bizarre story. Just before duck on a November day in 1974. Karen Silkwood was killed on her way to meet a New York Times reporter. She had said she was bringing evidence which would prove that her employer, the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, was manufacturing defective plutonium fuel rods, but her car went out of control on a lonely stretch of Oklahoman highway and the documents never arrived. Only a few days earlier, she had been contaminated by eating and inhaling plutonium, which AEC investigators concluded was deliberately placed in her apartment...
...victims: "He's so good that he shouldn't be permitted in a courtroom." He has not lost a case before a jury in twelve years, even though he regularly takes on the polished lawyers who represent powerful corporations. The multimillion-dollar losers include the Kerr-McGee energy conglomerate, for allowing Employee Karen Silkwood to be contaminated with plutonium; Squibb, for marketing an inadequately tested pregnancy-detection drug (Gestest) that apparently caused birth defects; and, most recently, Penthouse magazine, for a 1979 article that libeled a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring. The jury awarded her $26.5 million last...
...Yellowcake: The usable product of uranium milling operations, later converted into plutonium MARKET VALUE OF HARVARD STOCKHOLDING IN URANIUM CORPORATIONS COMPANY VALUE Atlantic Ritchfield-ARCO-Anacona $17,465,122 Duke Power 3,323,592 Continental Oil 6,538,679 Kerr McGee 1,645,230 Phillips Petroleum 8,996,703 Exxon 35,442,488 Gulf Oil 7,126,660 Mobil 18,360,622 Shell Oil 1,234,631 SOCAL 20,912,364 Virginia Electric...
...victims were men, ages 25 to 50, and apparently healthy. Each died between midnight and dawn, presumably while asleep. Sometimes the deaths were preceded by heavy breathing and nightmarish screams. Says a St. Paul-area medical examiner, Michael McGee: "The autopsies have been uniformly negative. We're really quite baffled...
...Holmer, Ill., rang the church bell 444 times, once for each day of captivity. "At about 200 pulls, I thought I'd never make it," she gasped. "Then at about 300 pulls, I got my second wind and kept going all the way." Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait for a ladder, so he shinnied ten feet up a pole to reach the halyard and hoist the U.S. flag over the statehouse in Boston. In Mountain Home, Idaho, some 200 townspeople staged an impromptu parade, driving their cars three abreast, headlights on and horns...